A TRAGEDY IN RUSSIAN HIGH LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 292, 8 December 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)

A TRAGEDY IN RUSSIAN HIGH LIFE.

A f-easation has been caused in St. Petersburg by a tragic affair in the family of a Russian baron, who was formerly attached tp the Russian Embassy at Madrid, and there married a Spanish lady. With the family lived a younger sister of the wife. Both ladies saw the baron off by train to St. Petersburg from his summer suburban residence as usual, and a feAV hours later the baroness appeared at the police station and in broken Russian explained that something terrible had happened at home. The police (the "Standard's" Moscow correspondent says) found her sister dead-in the last room of the suite, one that opened out of the other iv the Russian style, and on every door-post and all about the floors were blood stains and pools of blood. The unhappy girl was only 18. The crime is believed to have been caused by jealousy. After her husband left the house, the servants and the three little children were sent out, and the baroness then fired on her sister with a five-chambered revolver. The girl fled through the rooms, pursued by the jealous wife, who emptied all the chambers of her revolver into her victim, one of the fatal shots striking the head, another below the ear.